    | | | Created for the support of Petersburg artists (both participation in the exhibitions and entrance are free), in the course of time the Gallery became a rather prestigious spot for organization of exhibitions both of domestic and foreign artists. We believe that in the situation when there are few exhibition spaces in the city and a great scale of creative ideas, aesthetic concepts and artistic practices, the main actual task is to present as many artists as possible independent on genre and technology. Exhibitions in the Borey Gallery are in the non-stop regime. It is a basic principle of the Gallery to support beginning artists and creators (the first exhibition, the first book, the first article). Absence of aesthetic snobbery and restraints in the interests of a special group of artists. Accessibility and openness.
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27 January - 7 February 2009. Different printing techniques. Collaborative exhibition. |
"LITOGRAPHY"
Irina Vasilieva, Ivan Sotnikov, Oleg Katelnikov,
Vladimir Yashke, Andre Sugnaux, Andrey Khlobystin,
Konstantin Sutiagin, Svetlana Sutiagina
Different printing techniques
In the Small hall |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | "…the traditional role of prints as bearers of visual information had not been lost in the society. The first decades of the century saw the heyday of the art of professional printers, who virtuously worked with forms engraved by artists. Each firm trading in art was sure to deal with printing production (from the book about MAX BECKMAN)” Somehow collectors and lovers of fine art have developed a strange and unfair attitude towards printed graphics as to something secondary and unnecessary. Moreover, some owners of big art collections in principle do not pay any attention to graphic (or printed graphic) works by their favourite artists. It is not clever, for almost all meaningful artists dealt to some extent with printed graphics in some manner or technique. The “Arefyev circle”, for example, will be represented by its printed graphics on the 7th of March 2009 in the Museum of Non-Conformism at the Art-Centre “Pushkinskaya”. But they did not make lithographs – you cannot keep a lithographic machine at home and there was just a limited amount of such machines in Soviet Russia. Arefyev, and later the others, was a member of the “GorCom of graphic artists”, but they did not make any lithographs as members of this GorCom. Frankly speaking, they did not do anything there, their membership being just nominal, only to have the official “artists’ papers” – to protect themselves from being sued for “parasitism” in Soviet times. And who would have allowed them do anything? Every lithographic machine was numbered and supervised. They say that suspect printers or even simple technical workers with previous convictions were not allowed to approach lithographic machines, to say nothing about artists. It was a rare case when somebody managed to print lithographs in the Soviet era, O. Frontinsky being a happy exception to that common rule. The exhibition in the Borey Art Gallery presents works done during the previous year by several artists: Irina Vasilieva , Ivan Sotnikov, Oleg Katelnikov, Vladimir Yashke, Konstantin & Svetlana Sutiagini (Moskow) Andre Sugnaux (Switzerland), Andrey Khlobystin, and maybe by some other artists. |
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27 January - 21 February 2009. Tatiana Sergeyeva. Fine art. |
"57+34"
Fine art
In the halls of the gallery |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | "One of the most live trends of St. Petersburg art is turning to toys. Poets and artists reveal a world of reviving old dolls, animals, manikins, screws, postcards, inscriptions, plants and mechanisms.
Everything that Tatiana Sergeyeva pays her creative attention to turns into a fairy tale. Look – it is a plane flying over the fork, children monsters are feasting in fresh vegetables, a horse is smelling the flowers painted on a jar with cookies.
This childishness and toyfullnes of Tatiana’s canvases reflect all the fragileness and strength of beauty. Her paintings are now graphic, now colourful, now airy, now even black. The common is just one thing – a sad smile of a awkward, tiny almost forgotten animal sewn from rags, who meant so much in our childhood.
Our vision with its rich experience will find in Tatiana’s works both the please of combination of brutal and delicate, finely-drawn and fluffy, probable and surprising, with clear details and illusive. But in reality we love her works to the extent to which we are still children".
Mitya Gromov |
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3 - 24 January 2009. Alexander Wojciechovsky. Drawings. |
"OFF TO MEET HIS HAPPINESS"
Drawings
In the halls of the gallery |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | Alexander Petrovich Wojciechovsky was born in 1964 in Moscow. Lives in St. Petersburg. Had worked for 10 years as an emergency room doctor, participated in expeditions in Central Asia. In 1994 the first exhibition of his drawings was organized by the initiative of his friends. "Art can not be poured into pharmacist’s vials with a label on each: against the lust for power, against avidity, against inflammation of superiority, against jealousy, for compassion, against the slavery, against boorishness, against disdain towards all living creatures… Art does not possess a particular medication form, but cures from vain temptations, gives the energy, strengthens immunity against social diseases, cheers the souls and makes us laugh at ourselves. I do recommend to follow the prescriptions given by the author of this book, artist and doctor Alexander Wojciechovsky."
Yury Norstein "...This is not literature though there are words here. There is line and colour, bit it is neither drawing nor fine art. Only having united and lost independence words and images do receive this independence and individuality. It is like a lock and a key to it – by themselves, they can possess some value, for instance, historical or mechanical, but they can lock or unlock something only being together. Alexander Wojciechovsky discovers his own world, immediately recognizable and resembling nothing else. We see those whom we have never seen and imagined; we feel sympathy and compassion with what has never been and will never be. Has never been and will never be – but does exist here and now, under this cover."
Alexander Adabashyan
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